Stress coping strategies in elderly diabetic patients in the context of employment factor

The article presents the research results about stress coping strategies in patients with diabetes mellitus in old age, taking into account the employment factor. The authors reviewed current domestic and foreign scientific studies, which were carried out for five years in the field of psychological specificity and specificity of clinical disorders in patients with diabetes mellitus type II. It was established that adaptive emotional coping strategies are absent in the coping behavior repertoire in survey sample of patients with diabetes mellitus type II. The findings indicate constriction of the area of subjective emotional experiences in this patients and tendency to suppress emotional response in stress conditions. Taking into account the employment factor in young elderly, it has been shown that not employed people are able to cope with their emotions and actively seek support in immediate social environment using adaptive coping strategies. Unemployed patients of old elderly age use cognitive, behavioral and emotional non-adaptive strategies for coping with stress.